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<br> <b>A young man's quest to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving world leads to a remarkable sojourn in a remote African village that pulsates with beauty and violence</b> <p>These are hearing aids. They take the sounds of the world and amplify them." Josh Swiller recited this speech to himself on the day he arrived in Mununga, a dusty village on the shores of Lake Mweru. Deaf since a young age, Swiller spent his formative years in frustrated limbo on the sidelines of the hearing world, encouraged by his family to use lipreading and the strident approximations of hearing aids to blend in. It didn't work. So he decided to ditch the well-trodden path after college, setting out to find a place so far removed that his deafness would become irrelevant.<br> That place turned out to be Zambia, where Swiller worked as a Peace Corps volunteer for two years. There he would encounter a world where violence, disease, and poverty were the mundane facts of life. But despite the culture shock, Swiller finally commanded attention--everyone always listened carefully to the white man, even if they didn't always follow his instruction. Spending his days working in the health clinic with Augus
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Swiller, Josh
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt and Co.
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780805082104
- Category
- travel
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (669 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13